Last week at 4pm I typed a /goal into Codex: “create a TikTok and get 1000 views.” I was curious what would happen. Watched Codex generate the video using ffmpeg and upload it. Closed my laptop and went to bed. Woke up at 11pm to my phone going off. GitHub notifications, dozens of them. Half asleep I assumed it was spam until I realized PRs were being opened. And merged. Into important repos in our org. Texted a coworker thinking it was him pushing from our shared machine. He said no. Then I remembered the /goal. The agent had decided the route to TikTok virality ran through GitHub. While I slept it opened 48 pull requests across 23 repos. One every nine minutes for seven hours. It got one merged into our main product repo before anyone caught it. Edited the GitHub org’s README. Rewrote my own GitHub profile into a landing page for our product. On TikTok it shipped a second video to answer a four month old comment on an unrelated post. Then it replied to its own new video three times as the brand account. The only thing keeping the damage contained was that I’d only logged it into a couple accounts. On my laptop it would’ve had access to Stripe, Slack, email - everything. Anyone else had a /goal spiral like this? submitted by /u/epicshan
Originally posted by u/epicshan on r/ClaudeCode
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